Summary
- Backend engineer with 7 years of experience building and operating Python- and SQL-heavy systems, shipping customer-critical features, and leading projects end to end.
- Strong in Postgres, schema design, indexing, testing, concurrency-sensitive backend work, observability, non-blocking migrations, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Mathematics and economics background with prior financial statement analysis experience, useful for data-intensive and finance-adjacent backend domains.
Experience
Senior Backend Software Engineer | First Resonance
Los Angeles, CA | 2022-01 - Present
- Accelerated backend delivery in a large Python monorepo, ranking at or near the top of the team in commits, code changes, PRs, and reviews by owning high-priority backend work across product, platform, and operational needs.
- Earned promotion to backend team lead and later led our highest-traffic domain team by shipping retention-critical backend features including mBOM Versions (versioned DAGs), Installation Requirements (linking versioned DAGs), ION Actions (our hand-rolled rules engine), and Instant Inventory History (our event processor).
- Restored customer workflows during numerous on-call rotations by debugging backend failures, deploying targeted hotfixes, coordinating communications, and driving follow-up resiliency work.
- Improved engineering throughput by adopting Ruff early; centralizing local dev scripts; building an operator-focused Python CLI for cross-tool and cross-tenant diagnostics and analysis; and fine-tuning AI review prompts and agent instructions for higher-signal code review output.
- Delivered near-instant visibility into the lifecycle of inventory on the factory floor by building a Python/Postgres history service that transforms 10k+ audit rows/sec into context-rich, customer-facing events and supports 300M+ row backfills.
- Reduced schema drift and improved database change safety by forking and extending alembic_utils to manage triggers, stored procedures, functions, and views as code.
- Reduced local test iteration time by 30x by avoiding unnecessary test DB rebuilds, enforcing a rollback-based Python testing pattern, and implementing a custom module for bulk insertions far faster than the ORM; the same approach was later reused in production for large tree inserts.
- Improved production visibility across the API and database migration pipeline by instrumenting key metrics, building dashboards, defining SLI/SLO-style calculations, and creating monitors in Elasticsearch, Sentry, and Datadog.
- Reduced migration risk during large backfills and schema changes by writing and reviewing complex Postgres migrations and pushing non-blocking, backward-compatible migration practices across the team.
- Improved engineering knowledge sharing by organizing and maintaining our Notion knowledge base as a reliable source of truth for technical documentation and operational context.
- Interviewed, onboarded, and mentored engineers across senior, junior, and intern roles—boosting team productivity and ensuring rapid knowledge transfer.
Full Stack Developer | Spy Pond Partners LLC
Arlington, MA | 2019-08 - 2021-12
- Built client-facing portal websites and web applications that gave transportation agencies curated access to events, guides, reports, tools, and training resources.
- Developed Django-based assessment applications that helped agencies evaluate their own practices against peer agencies and federal standards from FHWA and AASHTO.
- Owned deployment and hosting across AWS, Heroku, and DreamHost, including EC2, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, security groups, CodePipeline, and S3.
- Scraped, cleaned, analyzed, and visualized transportation project data to reveal relationships between agencies and research initiatives.
- Built Google Apps Script (JavaScript) automations to eliminate manual workflows (e.g., mail-merging Google Sheets data into Google Docs).
Credit Analyst Intern | Bank of Nevada
Las Vegas, NV | 2017-09 - 2019-05
- Analyzed 400+ financial statements and built lending reports used to assess borrowers applying for loans greater than $50,000.
Education
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA | 2019-05
- Double majored in Mathematics and Economics
- Mathematics: Statistical Data Analysis, Real Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations, Probability, Advanced Linear Algebra Applications, Cryptology, Operations Research. Economics: Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Theory, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Accounting and Financial Analysis. Computer Science: Data Structures, Databases
Skills
Python (Skilled): Backend services, APIs, Testing, CLI tooling, Concurrency, Performance tuning
Agentic Engineering (Proficient): Claude Code/Codex/Open Code, AGENTS.md / skills, MCP-backed workflows, Tuning AI PR Reviews
SQL (Especially Postgres) (Skilled): Schema design/Data modeling, CTEs, Triggers, Functions, Stored Procedures, Transaction management, Data integrity, Locks, Indexes, Handling Concurrency, Query Optimization
GraphQL (Skilled): Graphene, Dataloaders, Relay
Telemetry/Monitoring and Alerting (Skilled): Profiling, Logging, Traces, Reading flamegraphs, Datadog, Elasticsearch
JavaScript/TypeScript (Skilled): React, Next.js, jQuery, D3
DevOps (Proficient): Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Vault, Autoscaling, Docker, Lots of AWS
Spreadsheets (Skilled): Formulas (lookups, filters, etc.), Google Apps Script